Kay Lupton (nee Sturgess) was born on 27th March 1965 in Ashford, Middlesex, England. She attended St Anne’s Primary and Abbotsford High School. In 1986, after meeting her future husband, Pete; Kay moved to Selby, Yorkshire, and they married in August 1988. The Lupton family immigrated to Adelaide, South Australia in August1994. In 2002 Kay attended Mt Barker T.A.F.E. to study Ceramics and Drawing. Between 2003 and 2006 she completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts & Applied Design at Adelaide Centre for the Arts. Since leaving the Centre for the Arts, Kay continues to exhibit all around South Australia.
Education and Training
2002-2006 Adelaide Centre for the Arts – Adelaide
Completed Bachelor of Visual Arts and Applied Design
Majoring in painting
2006 ‘Waiting For Godot’ Production
Adelaide Festival Centre
Scenic Art Department
2002 Mount Barker TAFE
Completed Certificate IV Art Practice
Majoring in Ceramics
Exhibition’s
August 2008 ‘What a girl wants’ Exhibition
SALA Festival 2008
Jones the Grocer’s Café, Adelaide.
August 2008 ‘Indulge’ Exhibition
SALA Festival 2008
Eckersley’s Art Supplies, Adelaide.
August 2008 ‘Art in the Spotlight’ Exhibition
SALA Festival 2008
Spotlight, Mt Barker.
March 2008 ‘What a girl wants’ Exhibition
Uncle Alberts Café, Norwood.
Nov – Mar KGB Gallery,
2007-08 Woodside.
August 2007 'Fickle Fads’ Exhibition
SALA Festival 2007
Woodside Providore, Woodside
August 2007 ‘Degree N to 10 Degree S’ Exhibition
SALA Festival 2007
Cocolat, Rundle Street, Adelaide
May- July ‘Carnivale Couturiere’ Exhibition
2007 Top of the Torrens Gallery, Birdwood
March 2007 ‘The Lime & the Coconut’ Exhibition
Fringe Festival 2007
Adelaide Central YHA, Adelaide
Dec-Jan ‘Art West’ First Exhibition
2006-2007 West End Art
Hindley Street, Adelaide
October 2006 ‘The Road Less Travelled’ Graduate Exhibition
Light Square Gallery, Adelaide
December ‘Wrestling Mud’ Graduate Exhibition
2002 Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf
Artist Statement.
I am extremely passionate about where I have been and what I have experienced. I use the memories that I have gleaned from those experiences as a starting point in my work. My work often has common themes running through it such as childhood, motherhood and the family unit as a whole.
I concentrate on my own family for the most part but also paint anything remotely concerning the family unit. I always prefer to paint subjects or objects that I am passionate about because I believe Art to be a statement from the Artist’s heart.
